TO AND FRO meaning: Moving back and forth repeatedly

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word to and fro:

General (19 matching dictionaries)

to and fro: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
to-and-fro, to and fro: Merriam-Webster
to and fro: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
to-and-fro, to and fro: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
to and fro: Collins English Dictionary
to and fro: Vocabulary.com
to-and-fro, to and fro: Wordnik
to and fro: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
to-and-fro, to and fro: Wiktionary
to and fro: Rhymezone
to-and-fro, to and fro: FreeDictionary.org
to and fro: Mnemonic Dictionary
to-and-fro, to and fro: TheFreeDictionary.com
to-and-fro: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
to and fro: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
to-and-fro: Infoplease Dictionary
to-and-fro, to and fro: Dictionary.com

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to and fro: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

to and fro, to and fro: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
to and fro: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (to and fro)

▸ adverb:  Back and forth; with a reciprocating motion.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To go back and forth; to alternate.
▸ adjective:  (dated) Pertaining to something or someone moving forward and back to the same position.
▸ noun:  (dated) The movement (of someone or something) forward followed by a return to the same position. May refer to a concept such as an emotional state or a relationship as well as a physical thing.

Opposite:

still, motionless, inert

Types:

back and forth, and again, more...

Phrases:

to and fro murmur, to and fro sound, to ing and fro ing, go to and fro, walking to and fro, more...

Adjectives:

up and down, back and forth, traverse, close, upstand, upward, peak, orthograde, upright, upstair

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